cóc

See also: coc, COC, còc, cọc, cộc, cốc, and čoc

Highland Popoluca

Noun

cóc

loft

References

Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 14

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kawk͡p̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kawk͡p̚˦˧˥]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [kawk͡p̚˦˥]
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)

Etymology 1

From Middle Vietnamese căóc, cóc.

Noun

(classifier con) cóc • (𧋉)

a toad
Con cóc là cậu ông trời,
Nếu ai đánh cóc thì trời đánh cho.
The Toad is the Heavenly Lord's boss,
If you strike him, the Lord will strike you.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Particle

cóc

(colloquial) not

Derived terms

Interjection

cóc

(colloquial) no

Usage notes

Very informal. Not vulgar like đéo, thus preferable, especially in dialog writing or translation.

Etymology 3

Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:

Cóc (cây)

Wikipedia ^vi

Compare Proto-Katuic *ʔakɔk, Khmu [Cuang] kok, Thai กอก (gɔ̀ɔk).

Alternative forms

cốc

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) cóc • (㭲)

species in the genus Spondias, such as Spondias dulcis

Etymology 4

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 覺 (SV: giác).

This morpheme was extensively attested written with the phonogram 谷 (MC kuwk) in Nôm texts, however, it already fell into disuse for some time before the colonial period.

Because of the fact that it is already mostly obsolete before the wide adoption of the Latin script, in modern romanization of Nôm texts, the phonogram 谷 (MC kuwk) is also commonly transliterated as *cốc, probably based on the Sino-Vietnamese reading cốc of the grapheme; however, there is little direct evidence that this is closer to actual pronunciation of the word when it was in use. On the other hand, cóc is glossed as biết (“to know”) in Đại Nam quấc âm tự vị (1885), and the compound cóc biết was translated as probè intelligere (“to understand well”) in Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum (1838).

Verb

cóc • (谷)

(obsolete) to be aware of; to know
- Chỉ nam ngọc âm giải nghĩa (指南玉音解義)
  谷咍事世與令特收
  Cóc hay sự thế dữ lành được thua.
  To know the situation, good or bad, allows for one to be defeated.

Derived terms